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Friday, 9 March 2012

East Coast goes MAD for Railway Children

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This from John Gelson over at East Coast... I thought Eye readers might be interested in East Coast's support for the Railway Children...

Command Paper - Measuring progress

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This from Captain Deltic... Celebrating 19 years of government meddling John Major in 1993 - " British Rail is deeply inefficient ...

Command Paper 'great leap forward'

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This from Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road... Readers of Soviet Weekly's reports of party conferences in the 1950s will recognise the styl...

Deltic rails at Deadwood's history rewrite

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The mad Vulcan is at it again. This near illiterate anti-rail rant from Redwood's blog : Listening today to criticisms of the governemnt...

Fares consultation - slapdash is the word!

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This from Mrs A P Tis... May I salute the Department for Transport for living up to its legendary reputation for attention to detail? A quic...

The future of railway Smart-ticketing - Exclusive

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This from a Mr Rabid Burns... I can exclusively reveal the details of the new DfT smart-ticketing systems that the Command Paper referenced...
Thursday, 8 March 2012

Command Paper celebrates the markets!

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This from Captain Deltic... I note from section 4.67 of the Command Paper that: Our preference would be that, building on the Competition C...

Railway Garden Competition - Tottenham Hale

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Perhaps Clog Rail, with their home-grown expertise in water management, can do a little better than the previous franchisee?

NR turns to Ford... again for new Chairman

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This from Stockmarketwire.com... Professor Richard Parry-Jones is to be the next chairman of Network Rail. It is his intention to appoint a...

ITSO in disarray as CEO departs

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Good to see that the government's plans for smartcards are going well. According to Modern Railways ... Michael Leach has left...
Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Manuel Cortes fires up the Quattro

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Oh dear. This from the leader of the TSSA today: Manuel Cortes said: "If the local booking office goes, then the station itself will no...

Exciting new Eye avian competition launched

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Time for an exciting new Eye competition! Please study these two statements contained in recent press releases from the RMT and Labour tranp...

Pointless signs - CrossCountry Voyager

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DfT flounders for answers to railway reform

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In advance of Friday's industry briefing on rail reform, government spinners have been hard at work. In the FT today the Department unv...
Tuesday, 6 March 2012

ORR gives regulatory thumbs up to Alliances

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This from the Office of Rail Regulation ... We support the concept of alliances and welcome their potential to add value in the rail sector,...

Man travels entire FGW network - by choice!

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This from Inspector Blakey... Would you mind giving a plug to my friend Ollie's charity fundraising tour of the FGW network? He's ai...

Villiers vignettes - Rolling stock procurement

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This from Cruella ... Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood, Labour) To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 1 Dec...

Eurostar causes Catwalk Catastophe

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Big disruption to Eurostar services following yesterday's OHLE problems in France. Judging by media coverage the only people affected we...
Monday, 5 March 2012

Command Paper to be published Friday?

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According to today's lobby briefing... Justine Greening will publish the Government response to the Sir Roy McNulty report on Friday. So...

BTP now armed at major stations

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Sad to say police officers with firearms are now set to become the norm at major stations. As pictured at St Pancras on Friday... Eye shares...
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